Thanks for that keen show perspective, Evan. Well done.
WIFI/4g blocking?!? Must be rough trying to fly drones and demo networked gear with Comcast hijacking your signal. And it would really throw cold water on Twitter feeds and all those aspiring Periscope-style streaming social media broadcasters we saw last year.
Hope you did well "flipping" your house. (Speaking of reality TV, sometimes I think that the HGTV CHANNEL single-handedly keeps our industry's pulse alive).
So, what's next for you? Is there a "Tiny house" in your future? "Log Cabin Living"? Or perhaps you "Bought the Farm"? ;)
RT
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Just got back late last night (diving 8 hrs from Vegas to Santa Fe, NM for the last time.... sold my house!).
Casual observations:1. Relevancy: Foot traffic in general seemed the same. The normal people stepping on your toes, reading texts and bumping into you, people sitting on the stairs in front of the sign "Don't Sit on The Stairs." New posters around the hall advertising NAB New York (renamed from another show), NAB Chicago and NAB Shanghai. Seems like they are begging for relevancy now.2. Cinedeck: Following up from another string on the Avid-L, we talked about the QT insert software, prices, etc. This product is currently in beta, and is intended for smaller shops dealing with inserting new content on baked files. Still, pretty cool. But talking to my sales buddies there, they were wondering what the heck has happened to the reality TV business. We compared notes. They mentioned several well-known companies who were hot for the Cinedeck product... but stalling on orders as their respective productions are significantly down, which has affected their sales. Worse than a typical election/Olympic year and now approaching the 9/11 market lethargy.3. Lots of traffic on one-man-band items, like DSLR, GoPro, Shape (a Canadian company that has some impressive camera stabilization products-- think Stedicam for an iPhone for $7-800-- show special was $500). Also some interesting drone products-- 4K UHD drones with .6 mile range/25 min flight time for under $1000 (one company was www.autelrobotics.com). I'm not a drone guy, but this really got me interested. Need to put more glue on the wallet...4. Avid: Kinda sad. Their normal location and over the top theatre presentation on everything post but not specifically editorial (collaborative, round-tripping, better interfacing with Premiere Pro--uh oh...). You can see they are trying to penetrate sports and distribution markets now, along with storage and other gee-whiz new (to me) product demos for very very narrow markets and applications (IMHO). Off to the side, there were two small tables dedicated to Media Composer and Symphony. With a "crowd" of 2 to 3 people hovered around the demo for the 9 or 10 times I walked by their booth.5. BlackMagic Design: A zoo. Especially around their post products Resolve and Fusion. Made Avid look even sadder. Resolve Studio 12.5, lifetime licensing for $999 (dongle). And you can use the same dongle on any platform-- Windows or Mac. They had 5 or 6 edit and/or colorist workstations with 4-deep crowds at all times, as well as a mini theatre (rarely a seat empty) demoing the latest interfacing between Resolve Editing, Color Grading and Fusion. Got me thinking that it might be time to migrate my software platform from Avid-- skip Premiere Pro altogether.6. Food: The usual vomit. Beer now $7 a bottle.7. Web connection: Never noticed this before. The Conv center BLOCKS your use of the internet on your phone-- both cell and wifi. You get a nice notice from Comcast (the center's provider) that for a mere $78.98 A DAY... they will hook you up. Text messaging fine. But it took an unusually long time to make a phone call from your iOS device.What stays in Vegas... should stay there... for eternity.
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